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Ryan Booth can check several boxes on his resume: National Park Service ranger, Washington State University assistant professor of history, and Fulbright Scholar, to name a few.

Now add film star to the list.

Booth, a 1995 La Conner High School graduate, provides expert commentary in several segments of a new documentary about Black soldiers who served in the U.S. Army more than a century ago.

“Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts” premiered last weekend at the Seattle International Film Festival. It chronicles the story of Black army regiments formed after the Civil War that pla...